Aaron Griffin schrieb:

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Daniel Isenmann wrote:

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Hi,

above package is in testing for both archs. Please signoff. I can't test the package because I don't use it, I have a router and not connected directly on the line.

If no one uses this, you can take my awesome "blame me if crap be broken" signoff

I wonder why this is in core anyway. PPPoE connections can be established with the pppd package alone. The only advantages this package has are: 1) A fancy configuration script. With pppd only, you'd have to read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PPPoE_Setup_with_pppd and set it up. We could include some example configuration like this in the pppd package though. 2) A PPPoE server. We don't need that in core. With pppd, the PPPoE protocol is handled in the kernel (while rp-pppoe does it in userspace), so pppd probably has less overhead anyway. I vote for db-move rp-pppoe core extra.

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Daniel Isenmann wrote:

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:27:51 +0200 Thomas Bächler wrote:

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Aaron Griffin schrieb:

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Daniel Isenmann wrote:

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Hi,

above package is in testing for both archs. Please signoff. I can't test the package because I don't use it, I have a router and not connected directly on the line.

If no one uses this, you can take my awesome "blame me if crap be broken" signoff

I wonder why this is in core anyway. PPPoE connections can be established with the pppd package alone. The only advantages this package has are:

1) A fancy configuration script. With pppd only, you'd have to read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PPPoE_Setup_with_pppd and set it up. We could include some example configuration like this in the pppd package though.

2) A PPPoE server. We don't need that in core.

With pppd, the PPPoE protocol is handled in the kernel (while rp-pppoe does it in userspace), so pppd probably has less overhead anyway.

I vote for db-move rp-pppoe core extra.

I can't give any comments on that. I really don't use it and have never used it.

I trust your statement. Any complains about moving to extra? If no, you can move it.

Maybe we should ask the users who actually use it - see if there is any rational reason they *depend* on it as opposed to pppd